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Could Nemo soon be appearing on beaches worldwide? Or what about giant crop-circle style patterns? Check out this video from Disney, which has built a robot that if it were the 90s, would put Art Attack's Neil Buchanan out of a job. Here's the creators explaining how it all works: Conceived by Disney Research and…

Yesterday we showed you the terrifying implications of robotics, and with that in mind, perhaps here's a reason to get even more worried: The robots are getting organised. The CBC has been reporting on an attempt by Harvard University to build robots that can work together to form shapes: Think like how fish can swim…

If you watch one video today, make it this one. YouTube star CGP Grey has just posted an astonishing video to his channel, in which he explains essentially why everyone will soon be redundant thanks to robots. Seriously - watch the whole thing - every few seconds your mind will be blown. Is it depressing?…

Do you dare to dream? Do you want to make the world a better place? Then it is your duty to get behind this noble campaign to build a massive car-juggling robot. A Kickstarter launched earlier this month to build the "Bug Juggler" - a robot that will literally pick up full size cars and…

Meet HitchBot. Sadly not a robotic reanimation of the late Christopher Hitchens, but a hitch-hiking robot that will be travelling across Canada over the next few weeks. A creation of a number of Canadian universities, the hybrid art-project/social experiment/folly is capable of talking and interacting in conversations with the people who pick it up along…

Russia has started using autonomous sentry robots to guard missile bases - that can identify enemies and make the decision to fire without a human being saying so. Yikes. Don't worry, this robot pictured only exists in Robocop. At least for the time being. As if we didn't have enough to…

Don't tell UKIP, but is seems that it is not just human European migrants who are coming to take all our jobs. It has been reported that the European Commission is now looking to strengthen Europe's position in the global…

Key Apple electronics manufacturer Foxconn are said to be replacing parts of their workforce with robots. The Taiwanese plant will be putting robots onto the assembly line to automate the manufacture of gadgets such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod,…

Call yourself an artist? Well, you're about to be replaced by a newer, robot model. This is SketRobo, the "sketch master" robot on show at IFA 2012 from Tosy Robotics. Aimed as an interactive "art teacher" toy for kids, it…

The Formula One Mercedes GP Petronas team have helped a British teenager improve his quality of life by helping him grab an expensive bionic arm from Touch Bionics. 14-year-old Matthew James was born without a left hand, and had been…